Styleture

WestEdge 2017: What You Missed

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Bringing style to the West Coast for the fifth consecutive year, the 2017 WestEdge Design Fair showcased the best in modern design from Santa Monica’s Barker Hanger. The four-day event, which stretched from October 19 to 22, brought high-profile names from architecture and interior design across categories including lighting, furnishings and kitchen and bath[...]

KBIS and IBS 2017

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For over 50 years, KBIS (Kitchen and Bath Industry Show), the nation’s largest kitchen and bath industry show, has been showcasing the latest awe-inspiring and innovative industry products, trends and technologies. At KBIS, which took place at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Fla., more than 500 leading brands and 100 new companies in the [...]

WestEdge Design Fair 2016

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With 2017 just around the corner, we’re reflecting on some of the design shows we attended in 2016 and the impressive and inspiring works we encountered. One of the most memorable ones was the one right in our city – WestEdge Design Fair 2016, which ran from Nov. 3 to 6 at the Santa Monica Barker Hangar. Designers and guests blended together in a casua[...]

Lightovation - Best of Dallas Market Lighting

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The Superbowl comes a little early for those in the decorative lighting industry. From January 20th-24th, every relevant brand in the industry gathered in Dallas, Texas, for Lightovation, the Dallas International Lighting Market. We got to check out the Littman Brands showroom, arguably the most versatile and impressive out of the many companies that we [...]

WestEdge Design Fair 2015

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Styleture recently traveled to Santa Monica, California, to attend the WestEdge Design Fair, a four-day event celebrating contemporary design in a modern environment packed with premium home furnishing brands and designers. While we enjoyed seeing everything the show had to offer, here is a closer look at some of our favorite booths and show highlights. [...]

What to See at ICFF 2015

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Once again, the ICFF trade show is poised to showcase the latest trends and styles of contemporary design across a variety of home and commercial products, including lighting, plumbing, textiles, flooring, accessories, furniture, and more. Over 700 exhibitors are expected at the event, meaning the thousands of visitors will need to pick and choose which prod[...]

What's Hot From Dallas Market 2015

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The Dallas International Lighting Market is renowned as the largest lighting show in the country. During the event this past January, we returned to one of our favorite lighting manufacturer showrooms: Littman Brands. They launched more than 400 new products collectively for 2015. Hudson Valley Lighting introduced more than 175 designs across a variety of [...]

Made In Italy

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Italian writer and critic Umberto Eco once said, "If other countries had a theory of design, Italy had a philosophy, maybe even an ideology of design.” During the mid-twentieth century, most of Europe shifted their design concept to focus on functionality; on the contrary, Italian brands decided not to jump on the bandwagon, instead incorporating modern life[...]

Design from a New Angle

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Is your decor feeling a little run down? It’s time to get in shape – and add some geometric style to your home workout regimen. Whether it’s daring squares, audacious angles or pentagons that pop, you don’t need a mathematical formula to determine that geometry is in. Geometric designs energize even the most “out of shape” interiors with bold patterns and ey[...]

Art Deco Still Inspires

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Following a premiere at the 1925 International Exposition of Modern Industrial and Decorative Arts in Paris, Art Deco became a flourishing global decorative style epitomizing luxury and glamor. Characterized by lavish ornamentation and bold geometric shapes, Art Deco reflected the decade of prosperity following WWI as rapid industrialization transformed the [...]